EDCC 2026
21st European Dependable Computing Conference
7-10 April 2026
Canterbury, UK
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Mark Wheadon
Technical Programme
Programme at a glance
All times are in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
| Tuesday, 7th April 2026 - Workshops |
| 8:30 - 9:00 |
Registration |
| 9:00 - 10:30 |
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| CARS 2026 - 10th International Workshop on Critical Automotive Applications: Robustness & Safety |
U-SPACE 2026 - 2nd Workshop on Dependability, Security, and Resilience for Future Airspace Safety |
AI-SS 2026 - 1st International Workshop on AI Safety and Security |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 |
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| 12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:30 |
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| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Break |
| 16:00 - 17:30 |
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| 18:00 - 19:00 |
Reception |
| Wednesday, 8th April 2026 |
| 8:30 - 9:00 |
Registration |
| 9:00 - 9:30 |
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| Opening Session |
| 9:30 - 10:30 |
Keynote
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| Sofia Guerra (Themistoclea) - Fission for Algorithms? AI, Nuclear Power, and the Politics of Acceleration |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 |
Session 1 - Distinguished Papers |
| Sina Borrami, Xavier Gallois, Cedric Bregardis, Martin Törngren, Christian Mangold, Jorge Sánchez De Nova. "Functional Safety Requirements and Challenges Towards Independence for System-on-chip, with Specific Application to Railway Signaling Systems" |
| Eid Albedah, Ilir Gashi, Jacob M. Howe. "Longitudinal Vulnerability Lifecycle Analysis" |
| Florian Butsch, Andreas Kreutz, Christian Drabek, Gereon Weiss. "Enhancing Reliability of LLM-Supported Hazard Identification" |
| 12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:30 |
Session 2 - Machine Learning Dependability |
| Juan Carlos Ruiz García, David de Andrés, Juan Carlos Baraza. "CNN Robustness through Quantisation in Edge Devices: An Incomplete Solution" |
| João Pino, João Campos, José D'Abruzzo Pereira. "Assessing the Impact of Historical Data on Machine Learning Vulnerability Detection Models" |
| Georg Macher, Benedikt Murer, Alexander Sifkovits, Christoph Kreuzberger, Omar Veledar. "Validating the Assistant: A Structured Approach for Safe and Usable AI Copilots in Dependable Systems Engineering" |
| 15:30 -16:00 |
Break |
| 16:00 - 17:00 |
Fast Abstracts |
| Thursday, 9th April 2026 |
| 8:30 - 9:30 |
Registration |
| 9:30 - 10:30 |
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Keynote
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| John A McDermid (University of York) - Safety of Autonomy: A Proportionate Approach? |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 |
Session 3 - Intrusion Detection
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| Elisa Chiapponi, Claudio Costanza, Vincent Rigal, Olivier Thonnard, Martynas Buozis, Philippe Gentric. "Scaling the Bait: Discussing the Feasibility of Pure Honeypots in Large-Scale Production Environments" |
| Tommaso Puccetti, Andrea Ceccarelli. "HOWLATE: Attack Latency Measurements for the Evaluation of Intrusion Detectors" (Tool Paper) |
| Louis Lolive, Guillaume Auriol, Vincent Nicomette, Florent Galtier, Simone Urbano, Jacques Girard. "Attack Scenarios and Embedded Intrusion Detection for Space Systems" |
| 12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:30 |
Session 3 - Vulnerability Assesment |
| Mateen Malik, Peter Folkesson, Behrooz Sangchoolie, Md Masoom Rabbani. "Evaluating the Impact of Barrage Jamming on the Image Quality of Live Video Streaming" |
| Haseeb Chaudhary, Francois-Xavier Cadinouche, Elisa Chiapponi, Michel Demazeau. "From Foothold to Callback: Memory-Resident Payloads and Architectural Weaknesses in a Legacy Java Platform" |
| Andrea Ciavotta, Alessandro Palma, Simone Lenti, Silvia Bonomi. "ThreatLinker: An NLP-based Methodology to Automatically Estimate CVE Relevance for CAPEC Attack Patterns" |
| 15:30 -16:00 |
Break |
| 16:00 - 17:00 |
Student Forum |
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| 17:00 -18:00 |
Canterbury Walking Tour |
| 19:00-21:00 |
Banquet Canterbury Cathedral Lodge |
| Friday, 10th April 2026 |
| 8:30 - 9:30 |
Registration |
| 9:30 - 10:30 |
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Keynote
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| Sara Tucci-Piergiovanni (Université Paris-Saclay) - Which Network Assumptions Make Blockchain Consensus Work? |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Break |
| 11:00 - 13:00 |
Session 5 - Safety and Fault Tolerance
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| Fynn Luca Maass, Romana Blazevic, Georg Macher, Omar Veledar. "Shared Autonomy Under Human Error: Designing Robust Command Interfaces for End-to-End Driving" |
| Benjamin Herd, Jessica Kelly, Jan Sabsch, Lydia Gauerhof. "Towards a compositional semantics for quantitative confidence assessment in assurance arguments" |
| Alexander Heß, Franz J. Hauck. "Leveraging Speculative Ordering for Fast and Resillient Reads in BFT SMR Systems" |
| Giannis Tzouros, Vana Kalogeraki. "Fault Tolerance Enhancements for Redundancy Conversion with Diagonally Interleaved Coding" |
| 13:00 - 13:30 |
Closing Session |
| 13:30 - 14:30 |
Lunch |
